QMS Contracts in the Midlands

Quality Management System (QMS)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for QMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QMS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 150 190
Rank change year-on-year +20 +40 -
Contract jobs citing QMS 9 15 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.33% 0.45% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.51% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £533 - £618
25th Percentile £552 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £675
75th Percentile £588 - £688
90th Percentile - - £703
England median daily rate £431 £612 £588
% change year-on-year -29.53% +4.17% +22.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

QMS is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,229 2,952 4,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.10% 88.22% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,489 2,065 3,205
10th Percentile £235 £240 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +15.85%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £569
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 108 144
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.94 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.71 £14.88 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% +10.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.50 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.75 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

QMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing QMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for QMS in the Midlands

QMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QMS in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for QMS in the Midlands

QMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QMS in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for QMS in the Midlands

QMS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QMS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +13 5 - - 14
East Midlands +21 4 £575 - 18
QMS
England

QMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Simulink
1 5 (55.56%) Stateflow
1 5 (55.56%) TargetLink
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (44.44%) SAN
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Bitbucket
1 5 (55.56%) Git
1 5 (55.56%) Subversion
General
1 5 (55.56%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Control Systems Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) EMC Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) EMC Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Algorithms
1 5 (55.56%) Management Information System
2 3 (33.33%) HP Storage
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) AIX
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Solaris
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Quality Management
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Black-Box Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Functional Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 5 (55.56%) Integration Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Line Management
2 5 (55.56%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Project Management
2 5 (55.56%) Software Audit
2 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Software Testing
2 5 (55.56%) UML
2 5 (55.56%) Validation
2 5 (55.56%) Verification and Validation
2 5 (55.56%) White-Box Testing
3 4 (44.44%) ITIL
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C
1 5 (55.56%) MATLAB
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
1 5 (55.56%) Master's Degree
2 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) AUTOSAR
1 5 (55.56%) ISO 26262
1 5 (55.56%) MISRA
1 5 (55.56%) MISRA C
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (33.33%) HP Data Protector
2 3 (33.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Brocade
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
1 4 (44.44%) EMC
2 3 (33.33%) HP
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) Symantec